Malaysia-Bruno

Malaysia  Bruno Barletta



Malaysia is located in Asia. It shares borders with Indonesia,Thailand, and Brunei.It is broken into two parts of land. One part of Malaysia is called Peninsular Malaysia and the other part is Malaysian Borneo. Malaysia has a total landmass of 329,847 square kilometers.
 * Population : 28,334,135
 * Birth rate : 20.74 births/1,000 population
 * Death rate : 4.95 deaths/1,000 population
 * Net migration rate:  -0.37 migrants/1,000 population
 * Infant mortality rate:  14.57 deaths/1,000 population
 * Population growth rate:  1.542% (2012)
 * Life expectancy:  71 (males) 76 (females)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Doubling time: <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> 45 years

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Malaysia is neither an MEDC and an LEDC. It is a Newly Industrialized Country (NIC). It is currently on the 3rd stage of the Demographic Transition Model. This birth rate proves that a big part of the population in Malaysia are young. The death rate in Malaysia is low because there is no war in the country and also they have good quality health care. The net migration rate of Malaysia is negative because there are more people leaving the country than people entering the country. The infant mortality is 14 deaths a year because kids don't have good health. The population growth is growing because the birth rate is higher than the death rate. Women are expected to live longer than men because men may have harder and more physically harder jobs than women. The doubling time of Malaysia is 45 years because

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Population Issues
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Currently in Malaysia there are different types of diseases that have been ending peoples' lives. Such as malaria, dengue fever, and bacterial diarrhea. Also, there are cases of people living with AIDS and people that have died due to AIDS. There has been recorded about 5,800 deaths caused by AIDS and about 100,000 people living with AIDS.



<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">In the picture of the right the regions of the world are highlighted in red to show how each country is affected by the malaria disease. You can see how Malaysia is highlighted in red almost completely. Malaysia is affected by the malaria disease ending with peoples' lives.

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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html http://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/destinations/asia-(east)/malaysia/malaysia-malaria-map.aspx http://www.nationmaster.com/country/my/Age_distribution http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~vanelliss/FOV1-000B9892/FOV1-000B9933/FOV1-0010363A/FOV1-000BD826/S09593D47?Plugin=Metro